Book Detail
To Be a Slave |
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Publication Information |
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| Author: Lester, Julius | Illustrator: |
| Title: To Be a Slave | Date: 1999 |
| Publisher: Dial | City: New York |
| ISBN, paperback: 0-8037-2347-4 | ISBN, hardback: |
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| ABE/ABLE: Yes | ESOL: |
| Family: | Young Adult: Yes |
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General Information: |
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| Book Type(s): diaries and journals, memoirs, nonfiction | |
HSE Descriptor(s): social studies |
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| Reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves report their experiences of being owned and sold as property in the United States during the 19th Century. Many accounts of brutality are unsettling. This is a reprint of a 1968 edition with new introductory material. The original prologue, epilogue, and bibliography remain. | |
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| This book is very difficult to read from cover to cover because the stories are unrelentingly brutal and cruel though factual. Teachers will want to include this in a text set on slavery especially with Lester's From Slave Ship to Freedom Road and Feeling's Middle Passage. Students may want to keep a response journal as they read. Because a few people are represented by several diary entries, students could write or discuss the composite character that is revealed. Students could choose passages to do as Readers' Theater. Strategies such as (Write and Share)2 and Discussion Web would work well with the many discussion topics the book suggests. If students are interested in more information about the author, they can log on to these web sites: teacher.scholastic.com/authorsandbooks/authors/lester/bio; falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/lester.htm. | |
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 Discussion Webshttp://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/discussion_webs.pdf |
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